John Shackleton became one of Europe’s top inspirational speakers after achieving success in many areas. Successful businessman, International sports coach, Property developer, British masters swimming champion, Executive coach to CEO’s.

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John gets international audiences exercising the biggest 'muscles' in their bodies - the brain. In 2005, he was voted Inspirational Speaker of the year by the National Speakers Association of New Zealand. John has also coached senior executives in a number of top organisations.

John has hands-on business experience. He founded a UK-based training company that turned over more than £1,000,000 a year. John's past clients include: Phizer, Thomas Cook Group, Honda, Bayleys Realty Group, and Statistics NZ*.

Before he became an inspirational speaker and business coach, John was a top sports coach in the UK, working with the British Triathlon team for 2 years, coaching them to become European Champions. Now when working with private and public sector clients, John utilises principals he learned from sports psychology helping his clients to implement them into their business and personal lives.

John says, "My passion is showing people that self-limitation is what holds us back. Sport psychology teaches us about self-belief and how important it is for achieving peak performance. All we need to do is to apply the techniques that sports people use to our work and personal lives. Applying these techniques means achieving so much more."

John fully understands the process of developing self-belief and claiming control over ones' attitude, confidence and focus for peak performance. He also has an intimate knowledge of how these factors contribute to success. John has recently achieved sporting success after realising that it was low self-esteem that held him back in his youth - not ability. At the age of 50, John is swimming faster than he was as a teenager training full-time.

As an adult, John has experienced an enlightening and exhilarating journey towards TOP international sporting achievement. His journey culminated in a top five placing in both the 100m & 400m Freestyle events at the 2000 World Masters Swimming Championships in Munich.

John's life experience makes him a unique and powerful motivational speaker who never uses trite textbook theory.

"WARNING.....an audience with John Shackleton will seriously improve your life! John's techniques are both simple and groundbreaking. We already have an incredibly high performing leadership team so to be able to challenge the way we think and therefore act differently was quite simply brilliant. I've personally benefited from the self-actualisation cycle and pre-play visualisation."
Vanessa Miller, Head of Customer Services, EFTPOS New Zealand

*John's recent New Zealand clients include: Guthrie Bowron, Retravision, Renault, Lockwood, Flight Centre, Carter Holt Harvey, Foodstuffs, Eftpos, Professionals, Harcourts, Kimberly Clark, Auckland City Council, Versatile, Sharp, Plunket, Ray White, Landcorp, ANZ, National Bank, Tower, AMP, Canon, Kodak, Avon and Subway.